From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrudderlessrud‧der‧less /ˈrʌdələs $ -dər-/ adjective NOT HAVEwithout someone to lead you or give you an aim or direction a company left rudderless by the resignation of its CEO
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rudderless• Some historians think that when Mao died, China was left rudderless.• Without Ixora he was rudderless, a man with no purpose.• Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless, aimless Government.• It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat, directed neither to work nor to leisure.• Good or evil ... These were considered old-fashioned terms in a morally rudderless society, Trent thought with more sadness than bitterness.• Within the industry, the consequences of a rudderless Whitehall were welcomed at the commercial grass roots level. 